AOL’s streaming coverage of the Live 8 concerts beat an ABC News 2-hour highlights special, preliminary Nielsen estimates showed. Roughly 5 million Internet users watched some part of AOL’s streams 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sat., topping out at 175,000 concurrent streams, AOL said. ABC’s highlights show reached 2.9 million viewers. Ratings from MTV and VH1, which also carried portions of the concerts, won’t be available until today (Wed.).
On June 28, 2005, a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued its opinion in USA-ITA v. U.S. et. al. which upholds its stay (lifting) of the Court of International Trade's (CIT's) preliminary injunction that had prevented the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) from considering, accepting, or taking further action on any China safeguard petitions based on the threat of market disruption.
AOL’s streaming coverage of the Live 8 concerts beat an ABC News 2-hour highlights special, preliminary Nielsen estimates showed. Roughly 5 million Internet users watched some part of AOL’s streams 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sat., topping out at 175,000 concurrent streams, AOL said. ABC’s highlights show reached 2.9 million viewers. Ratings from MTV and VH1, which also carried portions of the concerts, won’t be available until today (Wed.).
Amazon.com said it opened a non-automated distribution center in Irving, Tex. An Amazon spokeswoman said Fri. that the company already had fully automated distribution centers in Del., Ky. (2), Kan. and Nev., as well as non-automated facilities in Ariz., Ky. (2), Nev. and Pa. (2). The new center is expected to handle electronics and various other products sold by the e-tail giant. Separately, Amazon and its A9.com search engine subsidiary were sued by publisher Perfect 10 in U.S. Dist. Court, L.A., last week. The publisher of Perfect 10 Magazine and owner of website perfect10.com filed a motion for preliminary injunction against Amazon to stop the latter’s search engine from copying, displaying and distributing Perfect 10’s copyrighted images, mostly consisting of nude women. Perfect 10 Pres. Norm Zada told Consumer Electronics Daily Fri. that his company had already sued Google in Nov. for copyright infringement and other claims as well. He said A9.com, Google and other search engines were routinely displaying his company’s copyrighted material without permission. Zada said he decided to start taking legal action because his company had now “lost $35 million playing by the rules.” Perfect 10 claimed that search engines including A9.com and Google “are displaying hundreds of thousands of adult images, from the most tame to the most exceedingly explicit, to draw massive traffic to their websites, which they convert into ad revenue or sales revenue.” It complained that, “under the guise of being ’search engines,’ Amazon and Google now display, free of charge, thousands of copies of the best images from Perfect 10, Playboy, nude scenes from major movies, nude images of supermodels, as well as, on the explicit side, thousands of images of animals having sex with humans.” Perfect 10 said it had sent “numerous notices of infringement (34 to Google and 7 to Amazon) but both continue to display over 2,500 copies of more than 1,000 of Perfect 10’s best copyrighted images without authorization.” Amazon’s spokeswoman declined to comment, saying “we haven’t yet seen a copy of the complaint.”
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of certain preserved mushrooms from India for the period of February 1, 2003 through January 31, 2004.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from Japan for the period of July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2004.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently issued a Customs Bulletin notice requesting written comments by July 29, 2005 on its proposal to limit the application of the court decisions in Park B. Smith Ltd. vs. U.S. (Park) to the specific cotton woven table linens and cotton woven dhurry rug entries before the courts in that litigation. (See ITT's Online Archives or 07/01/05 news, 05070110 for BP summary.)
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its countervailing (CV) duty administrative review of certain pasta from Italy for the period of January 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued its final results of the changed circumstances antidumping (AD) duty review of certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Romania.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a Customs Bulletin notice requesting written comments by July 29, 2005 on its proposal to limit the application of the decisions of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) and the Court of International Trade (CIT) in Park B. Smith Ltd. vs. U.S. (Park) to the specific cotton woven table linens and cotton woven dhurry rug entries before the courts in that litigation.